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I'm on ¨Strange News from Another Star¨ by Herman Hesse. It´s quite good. I´ve read four of the stories so far, and the title one is my favorite, but I also really like The Poet. It´s all so cleanly phrased but still beautiful.

I am also re-reading The Ministry of Special Cases by Englander. Anyone unfamiliar with the man's work should stop whatever it is that they're doing and go and buy any of his work. There's only two books so far mind.

the first Dickens I've read and so far it's wonderful.
I'm also working my way through Scott Pilgrim and DMZ. The last time I just read a lot of graphic novels it made me feel weird after a while, so reading Dickens at the same time will hopefully safeguard against this.

in my younger days, I'd get so far, leave it, then have to start again because there's so much to keep in your head. I eventually set a time limit and read it in every available minute I had. That worked. And it's magnificent.
My favourite's still The Crying Of Lot 49 though, probably because of how concise yet still dense it was.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through. I think it almost gave me a headache reading it on the train today. You leave it for a day or two, and everything seems completely new and alien. Words and phrases such as 'horn time' seem like you've completely lost the thread.

for many people the new york trilogy seems to eclipse everything else he's done and granted, he's written some bad stuff, but the music of chance easily ranks alongside it in terms of imagination and exhilaration. fucking amazing. just started leviathan and that's brill too.